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...But democracy has been on a declining trend globally since 2012, according to research from the University of Gothenburg’s V-Dem Institute....
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...has a great deal of art, and America has a great deal of money.”...
...UK-listed stocks, all of which are growing faster than international brand name blue-chip companies listed on the London market....
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...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...Gaining favour for their interior space, seating capacity and unremarkable exterior looks (that enable their occupants to move around under the radar), the van is the ideal platform on which to create a...
...In 2006, Simpson wrote a “fictional memoir” that gave a hypothetical account of the murders that he planned to title If I Did It....
...London had its moment in 1851 with the Great Exhibition, the ghastliness and excess of which proved the trigger for improving design through institutions such as the V&A....
...A fondness for European defence stocks has been a somewhat oddball hobby for most of the last decade or two, but like V-neck jumpers, the sector is firmly back in fashion....
...at the V&A....
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...from a dream, the figures floating amid ancient ruins as though under a spell....
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